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China IC Design House Report, 2006 (Chinese Version)
Research In China, Nov 2006, Pages: 216
By the end of 2005, China's IC design houses totaled at 479, only increased by 3 over the year of 2004. In 2006, more merger & acquisition will appear, and the total number of IC design houses will probably decrease. In 2005, sales revenues of domestic IC design industry rose by 52.5%, the industrial scale reached RMB 12.43 billion.
In the past 5 years, the annual growth rate of domestic IC industry has exceeded 30%. The mainstream process technology also had decreased to 0.18 um of 2005 from 0.5 um of 2001. Besides, led by government policies, it is forecasted that by 2010 China will foster 20-30 IC design houses with over US 100 million annual output value, including 2-3 large IC design houses of over US 1 billion annual output value, meanwhile, the total output value of domestic IC design industry will reach about RMB 50 billion, and the design technology will be 65nm.
As far as general layout concerned, Chinese IC design industry has formed a pattern focusing on Beijing-Tianjin-Bohai Bay, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Western Economical Zone, with sales revenues shared over 80% of the total in China. A group of large IC design houses of over RMB 100 million annual sales revenues have been born. In general, the basic scale of IC design industry has formed in China.
Regarding IC design technology, the design level of China's IC design industry has realized a great progress. Design houses with below 0.25µm linewidth (including 0.25, 0.18, 0.13µm) accounted for 20% in 2001, and the figure rose to 71% in 2005. The percentage of design houses with below 0.18µm linewidth (including 0.18, 0.13µm) also rose from 35% of 2002 to 58.9% in 2005. Many design houses have adopted 0.13µm process technology when they design new products. As for 90nm process technology, considering the high production cost, but 0.13µm process technology has a better performance/price ratio.
Nevertheless, IC design sector in China still faces serious challenges. Due to deficiencies in many aspects, China still heavily relies on import.
In details, China's deficiencies in IC design include the following points:
1. China lags behind the U.S., South Korea, Japan and Taiwan Mainstream regarding main body process technology;
2. The design capacity of SOC & IP core is far from satisfying domestic market demand; most products have a low-end grade and small profit margin;
3. The general market scale of IC design is relatively small compared to that of IC developed countries;
4. High-level workforce are in short supply, especially in technical, management and marketing ;
5. High-end products are few, especially IC products aiming at senior system manufacturers;
6. Most IC design houses are medium or small sized.
However, the Chinese government has always maintained a strong support on IC design industry and released a series of measures to encourage the development of domestic IC design houses, including Document No.18, Document No. 51, tax refund, discount government loan, setting up specific industrial base and so on. Foreign venture investment firms and far-sighted investors also started to enter.
This report detailed investigates 131 IC design houses in China, and analyzes their characteristics, products, technology, financial results, customer relationship, latest news, prospect, etc. In this report, IC design houses are divided into 6 categories: fundamental IC design houses, multimedia IC design houses, communications IC design houses, smart card IC design houses, PC peripheral IC design houses and others.
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